My favorite part is when she has a name for the crusty stuff that forms on ice cream that's been in a freezer for years!
Bruce On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Franc <[email protected]> wrote: > For me, it has to be Debbie Reynolds as the mother in Albert Brooks' > MOTHER. I pick her because in this role Debbie managed to unlock the secret > that all real-life mothers hold dear in their relationships with their > fully grown children: how to push all their child's buttons and make that > child feel both resentful and guilty at the same time. And the film is > hillarious to bout! FRANC > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Bruce > Hershenson > *Sent:* Friday, April 03, 2009 4:16 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not > include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)! > > Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom? > > Last week, we asked, "who do you feel played the FUNNIEST movie dad?" This > week (because there are very few "humorous" moms) we are asking, "Who do you > feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?" > IMPORTANT! This is kind of tricky! We are not asking what character in > a movie who happened to be a mother was the most memorable ever, but rather > we are asking what character in a movie was the most memorable MOTHER ever > (many women characters in movies have children, but in many of them the > mother/child relationship is very secondary to what makes the female > character so memorable, so those performances should NOT be considered). Try > to focus on the "mother/child" scenes, where it is those scenes that are so > memorable (and sometimes these memorable performances can be very brief, > sometimes only a single scene, but they can really stick in your memory)! > You are welcome to give any second or third choices in the comments > field!Please pick one of the options below, and then please discuss why you > chose the option that you did in the comments field (and it is fine if you > include second or third choices), or anything else you would like to share > with the rest of the e-mail club. > Ann-Margret (Tommy) > Mary Astor (Mee Me in St. Louis) > Anne Bancroft (The Graduate) > Ellen Barkin (This Boy's Life) > Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase) > Louise Beavers (Imitation of Life 1934) > Eugenie Besserer (The Jazz Singer) > Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies) > Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More) > Darlene Cates (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?) > Cher (Mask) > Glenn Close (World According to Garp) > Claudette Colbert (Imitation of Life 1934) > Gladys Cooper (Now Voyager) > Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce) > Bette Davis (Little Foxes) > Viola Davis (Doubt) > Doris Day (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) > Faye Dunaway (Mommie Dearest) > Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama) > Jo Van Fleet (Cool Hand Luke) > Constance Ford (A Summer Place) > Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate) > Ruth Gordon (Where's Poppa?) > Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free) > Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) > Jane Hoffman (Sybil) > Anjelica Huston (The Grifters) > Elsa Janssen (Pride of the Yankees) > Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) > Diane Keaton (The Good Mother) > Leopoldine Konstantin (Notorious) > Angela Lansbury (Manchurian Candidate) > Piper Laurie (Carrie) > Myrna Loy (Cheaper by the Dozen) > Shirley MacLaine (Postcards From the Edge) > Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment) > Marjorie Main (Ma & Pa Kettle) > Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) > Dorothy McGuire (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) > Dorothy McGuire (Old Yeller) > Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life 1959) > Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People) > Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane) > Patricia Neal (Subject Was Roses) > Maureen O'Hara (Parent Trap) > Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth) > Vivian Pickles (Harold and Maude) > Anne Ramsey (The Goonies) > Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train) > Donna Reed (It's a Wonderful Life) > Adeline De Walt Reynolds (Going My Way) > Debbie Reynolds (Mother) > Rosalind Russell (Gypsy) > Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo's Oil) > Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas) > Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice) > Lana Turner (Imitation of Life 1959) > Lana Turner (Madame X) > Alberta Watson (Spanking the Monkey) > Shelley Winters (Lolita) > Joanne Woodward (Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds) > Jane Darwell ("Ma Joad" from Grapes of Wrath) > Myrna Loy (The Best Years of Our Lives) > Other (but PLEASE be sure to explain WHY you chose this option below) \ > > How do you MoPo members feel? > > Bruce > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
